Rectangular wood and cast lead printing block. The print image consists of two lines of text. The top line is in Greek and is a large font size. The second line is in English and has text of a smaller size than the first line. The second line provides the translation of the first line, which is: "Pammessenian News."

Donated by John Damianos. The printing block was used in a linotype printing machine. Linotype presses allowed for the casting of entire lines to be printed at a time. Linotype printing was eventually succeeded by lithograph printing and computer typesetting during the 1960's and 1970's. This printing block was used by the Chicago-based, Greek Art Printing Company. This printing block was used in the printing of the Pammessenian News, which was the official Greek and English-language newpaper of the Pan-Messenian Federation of America. The Pan Messenian Federation, now called the Pan-Messinian Federation of USA and Canada, is a non-profit organization founded in 1945. The Federation works to preserve Greek language, culture, and civilization in Canada and the United States, as well as strengthen the links between Greek-Americans and Greek-Canadians and thier home region of Messenia. Messenia is a region of Greece that makes up the southwest corner of the Peloponnese.

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